Update: Esperanza Unida workers sign petition saying they haven’t been paid for weeks, and that some checks had bounced. Agency’s director was traveling in Turkey. “Our checks have been late consistently for three months, and we have not received paychecks now for four weeks,” the workers said in a June letter submitted to Executive Director, Robert Miranda. See: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=773593

via Global Girl - http://www.uppitywis.org/manriquez%E2%80 %99-bad-faith-betrays-hispanics-8th-asse mbly-district
Madison, Wisconsin - When I received a ring from a friend calling from the Government Accountability Board (GAB) informing me that the GAB had unanimously ruled against Laura Manriquez' effort to knock both of her Democratic primary opponents, Jose Guzman and state Rep. Pedro Colón, off the ballot for a Milwaukee assembly seat, I felt true schadenfreude.

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't we let the voters decide at the ballot box, Laura, what, Rove is your last name?

via mal contends - The bare five-to-four majority in the Supreme Court decision, Boumediene v. Bush /Al Odah v. United States, preserving the writ of habeas corpus (in Latin, "you shall have the body") demonstrates that civil liberties in our country today is a partisan deliberation.

Civil liberties, among the rationales behind the founding of the United States of America, do not (with notable exceptions) enjoy a high regard in today's Republican Party.

via MAL Contends

Most rational, honest observers (those are not whom we see on cable TV) know that absent a historic meltdown by Obama, Hillary Clinton has virtually no chance of winning the Democratic nomination.

Her nine-digit win in the quasi-machine state of Pennsylvania excites only those with a vested interest in seeing her continue in the race.

Wisconsin used to take pride in its university system supported by a bipartisan consensus to create a world-class educational facility.

Now, under the leadership of the GOP-led state Assembly, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its sister campuses are under assault, deadly assault.

Contact Speaker Michael Huebsch and his co-hort Representative Stephen Nass, and let them know that you object to their destroying a world-class educational institution.

via MAL Contends
Madison, Wisconsin--Frank Rick has a piece in this morning's Times arguing that Obama and Hillary "are flat-out wrong" in condemning John McCain for McCain's allegedly having expressed a willingness "... to keep this (Iraq) war going for 100 years," as the two Democrats on the campaign trail state their desire for withdrawal, contra McCain.

Rich, among the most perceptive columnists today, cites other writers and fact checkers making the same point, including Zachary Roth in the Columbia Journalism Review.

After agreeing not to campaign in Florida and Michigan last year, Hillary Clinton now wants the elections, such as they were, to count.

via http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-mccain-fear-and-lying.html

Update: McCain buddy Bush picks up the lying talking point.

BUSH: It's an interesting comment. 'If Al Qaida is securing an Al Qaida base'? Yes, well, that's exactly what they've been trying to do for the past four years. That's -- their stated intention was to create enough chaos and disorder to establish a base from which to either launch attacks or spread a caliphate.

From the inception of the Bush presidency which effectively began on September 12, 2001, the war paradigm and fear have been its trademarks.

Madison, Wisconsin - Straight-up poll here from Wisconsin.

I'm for Obama; but the last few days have seen negative attack after negative attack by Hillary, and I am POed. Alleged plagiarism, social security, just words, you know the story.

Am I being objective?

Here's the poll: